Home healthcare coalition calls on CMS to scrap PDGM behavioral adjustment
By
Diane Eastabrook
Sep 03, 2021
A coalition of home healthcare leaders called on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Thursday to rescind the 4.36% behavioral assumption cut next year as part of the Patient-Driven Groupings...
Supply of post-acute care facilities continued decline last year: MedPAC report
By
Amy Novotney
Jul 21, 2020
The nation’s supply of inpatient rehabilitation facilities, long-term care hospitals and skilled nursing facilities continued to decline in 2019, contracting by 1.5%, 3.9% and 0.8%, respectively. That’s...
Home Care briefs for Monday, Feb. 8
By
Joe Jancsurak
Feb 08, 2021
Longtime Democratic health policy expert seen as front runner for Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator post … Johnson & Johnson files for emergency use of its single-dose vaccine …...
Business briefs, Aug. 19
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 19, 2021
Capital Senior Living regains compliance with NYSE continued listing standards … Nursing homes must vaccinate employees or lose Medicaid, Medicare funding … Senior living and care, real estate, tech...
Business briefs, Jan. 20
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jan 20, 2022
IN Medicaid Fraud Unit collects $316,241 in restitution from long-term care pharmacy provider … Florida governor won’t enforce CMS vaccine mandate despite Supreme Court ruling … NC Medicaid direct-care...
AHCA/NCAL leader predicts strong future for skilled nursing, assisted living providers
By
Amy Novotney
Mar 04, 2020
The business outlook for skilled care and senior living is as positive today as it has been in many years, according to Mark Parkinson, president and CEO of the American Health Care Association/National...
Supreme Court will not hear challenge to healthcare worker vaccine mandate
By
Lois A. Bowers
Oct 03, 2022
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a legal challenge to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services COVID-19 vaccination mandate for healthcare workers at nursing homes and other facilities...
‘Replace denial with proposal’ on long-term care, House committee told
By
Lois A. Bowers
Nov 15, 2019
Congress must “replace denial with a detailed, bipartisan legislative proposal on long-term care” to address the needs of a growing older population facing high costs for healthcare and housing, Robert...
Proposed law would enable some older workers to stay in jobs longer
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 12, 2021
Older Medicaid beneficiaries who are working and have disabilities no longer would need to retire at 65 to continue receiving benefits, under proposed legislation. The Supporting And Empowering the Nation...
Biden set to name new CDC director
Jun 02, 2023
Former North Carolina Health Secretary Mandy Cohen is the likely pick.